Cross Connections

In India today, nationalism has a religion. Hinduism. We may pussyfoot around it and refer to it as Hindutva, saffronisation or, wh...

Three recent examples. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said: "I have always maintained that Rahul Gandhi would be an ideal choi...

No patakhas for Muslims? Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a fatwa against manufacturing and sale of firecrackers, ...

Who’d have thought that the government move against deodorant ads would get a saffron person to state: “I guess these guidelines do not ap...

He wears orange robes and then appears on behalf of 'civil society'. Why does no one pull up Swami Agnivesh for mixing religion and ...

The maulvi says TV is haram. The sadhu says gambling is immoral. Baba Ramdev and Maulana Madani Under the skin they are the same, so ...

Time to come out Had anyone heard Rahul Gandhi talk about ‘Hindu terrorism’ before? Then why is everyone jumping the gun and accusing hi...

Now that we know Muslims can just do it, courtesy Junoon ’s Salman Ahmad, how are believers to manage abstinence? You forsake food, water an...

You won’t see this newspaper with its defences down. Ever. It is just so subtle. Or sly. Today the Times of India front-paged news about h...

Whoever got the idea to write in bold letters ‘kafir’ (infidel) on the coffin of a Hindu who died in the recent plane crash in Islamabad was...

She is an advocate and the first woman attorney-general. But trust the headlines to play that down. Hindustan Times had ‘Indian-origin grann...

Star-crossed Borders by Farzana Versey Inside the well-rounded cosmopolitan atheist persona of Shujaat Rizvi, there was a Pakistani national...

Maverick: Global Bubble of the Revivalist by Farzana Versey Covert, December 15-30 Those who left have it good. While Prime Minister Manmoha...

Bachchan at Tirupati with brothers-in-arms Anil Ambani and Amar Singh We had no idea that Amitabh Bachchan’s religious routine includes visi...

This fellow is quite a hoot. Alleging that ‘love jihad’ was the latest tool being used by miscreants to promote anti-national activities, Sh...